440 BULLETIN 109, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Sec. 3. That 1,000 copies of each of the reports in the hands of said com- 

 missioners be placed at the disposal of the executive department of the State 

 for distribution to other States and counties and public institutions. 



Act of March 15, 1878. 



Be it enacted, That the commissioners of the geological survey shall furnish 

 the senate and house of representatives, for distribution to the people, 1,000 

 bound copies of each of the volumes marked, respectively, HIlH and II, and 

 also a like number of bound copies of each of the forthcoming reports of the 

 survey, 350 of each for the use of the senate and 650 for the use of the house. 

 They shall also furnish to the executive department 100 bound copies of each 

 of the reports as above for distribution to other States and public institutions. 



.Toiut i-esolution of May 3, 1878. 



Resolved, That there be printed for the present year for the use of the 

 senate and house of representatives 3,500 copies of each volume of the geological 

 survey reports heretofore i.ssued, and a like number of each volume of the 

 reports of said survey which are now in process of publication; 1,000 copies 

 of each volume for the use of the senate and 2.500 for the use of the house of 

 representatives. 



Joint resolution of March 28, 1879. 



Whereas with one or two unimportant exceptions, all the known accessible 

 anthracite coal in the world is found within the limits of the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania ; and 



Whereas by various enactments of former legislatures of this Common- 

 wealth, the care and management oi" these precious deposits of fuel, which 

 are very limited in extent, have been committed to bodies corporate with almost 

 unlimited powers and with consequent responsibilities; and 



Whereas the anthracite coal fields, the seat of the most important mineral 

 interest in the State, is rapidly becoming exhausted under the present wasteful 

 and unprofitable system of mining and selling the same, which is returning no 

 just recompense to the land owner, the operator, the miner : Therefore 



Be it resolved, That the board of commissioners of the geological survey of 

 the State be requested to cause a survey and examination of the anthracite 

 coal region to be made, paying special attention to the question of the rapid 

 exhaustion of this most valuable deposit, more economy in the methods of min- 

 ing, and the avoid.'ince of the great waste and overproduction now threatening 

 ruin to all interested in the trade, and to make a special report with reference 

 to these subjects, and suggesting if possible a remedy for the evils above recited. 



Act of June 12. 1870. 



Whereas the coinmissiouers of the second geological survey of Pennsylvania 

 have had printed, and now hold in reserve, 2,500 copies of the larger maps and 

 other illustrations accompanying the several reports of said survey, and as said 

 reports are required by the citizens of this Commonwealth : Therefore 



Be it enacted, That there be printed for the present year 2,500 copies of each 

 volume of the geological survey reports heretofore and hereafter to be issued; 

 600 copies of each voluuje for the use of the senate, and 1,900 of each volume 

 for the use of the house of reperesentatives ; and the commissioners of the 

 geological survey are hereby directed to deliver to the superintendent of public 



